ICON: Raising the Efficiency of Clinical Trials

Today, the medical industry recognizes clinical data as the core asset of health and medical research. However, the necessities to strictly maintain Clinical Data Management (CDN) standards that fulfills regulatory requirement are making clinical studies more complex. At the same time, multiple clinical data sources and the lack of standard data management tool leads to scattering of trial data, creating difficulty for the users to access insightful data in real-time. Integrating these unstructured data for seamless delivery and access, ICON [NASDAQ:ICLR]—an outsourced pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device development services provider—effectively runs clinical trials for pharmaceutical companies. The company’s robust integrated data management solutions deliver customers single access to numerous systems through a portal.

This integrated data management solution is helping to deliver clinical data in a standardized way; irrespective of who the consumer is. It encompasses a single data set to perform multiple actions that support the evolving need of data insights, such as study design, execution, and data analysis. ICON is providing cloud based services like e-PRO (electronic Patient Report and Outcome), where patients and physicians can access medical reports from their mobile devices. “With the help of cloud based solution ePRO, healthcare organizations could eliminate the hassle for accessing patient record data in papers and risk of losing them,” says Sanjay Patel, VP and Global Head of Data Management, ICON. The company facilitates development and review of clinical case reports and creates design for case report format (CRF). “We emphasize on applying SDTM standard in CRF design, which is critical in collecting patient data in the right format,” says Patel. “It ultimately ensures that the clinical data is relevant and regulatory submission compliant,” he adds. ICON delivers comprehensive documentation quality edits and clean delivery of data files ensuring data integrity which is important to the success of clinical case studies.

ICON has developed their standard operating procedures to deliver high quality data and services to the clinical researchers.